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0007066ardourbugspublic2016-10-13 19:56
Reporternstewart Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status assignedResolutionopen 
Platformamd64OSubuntuOS Version16.04
Product Version5.X git (version in description) 
Summary0007066: crash creating range from region with illegal start location
DescriptionI'm not sure what to do with this one. I have a session were one of the tracks contains an illegal start(and sync point). I'm not sure how it got that way, I suspect either a Rhythm Ferret operation or perhaps a plugin operation. (I have not been able to recreate the illegal region from scratch yet.)

If you click on the first region, and show properties, it shows the two fields (start, sync point) are negative. If you click in the field to do anything, as soon as it receives focus it fixes the bad value and overwrites it with a zero.

However if you select the region and try to do an operation (in my case set_loop_range), it blows up with the interesting portion of the stack trace looking like:
0000005 0x00000000008b3907 in Editor::set_loop_range (this=0x5a93910, start=-888, end=1663112, cmd="set loop range from region") at ../gtk2_ardour/editor.cc:4739
#6 0x00000000009dcb81 in Editor::set_loop_from_region (this=0x5a93910, play=false) at ../gtk2_ardour/editor_ops.cc:6351
#7 0x00000000008f9ce6 in sigc::bound_mem_functor1<void, Editor, bool>::operator() (this=0x5c15880, _A_a1=@0x5c158a0: false) at /usr/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/functors/mem_fun.h:1856
0000008 0x00000000008f36f9 in sigc::adaptor_functor<sigc::bound_mem_functor1<void, Editor, bool> >::operator()<bool&> (this=0x5c15878, _A_arg1=@0x5c158a0: false) at /usr/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/adaptors/adaptor_trait.h:89
0000009 0x00000000008e9e26 in sigc::bind_functor<-1, sigc::bound_mem_functor1<void, Editor, bool>, bool, sigc::nil, sigc::nil, sigc::nil, sigc::nil, sigc::nil, sigc::nil>::operator() (this=0x5c15870)

I suspect that this should likely be fixed in the selection rather than the particular command.
Additional InformationI've attached the session file (but not the data files as I didn't believe them relevant. I can provide more detailed session info if needed.
TagsNo tags attached.

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nstewart

2016-10-10 02:32

reporter  

illegal_region.ardour (1,679,690 bytes)

paas44

2016-10-13 19:17

reporter   ~0018807

I've quickly looked into this one. The problem is that for some regions, the position has a value of -888.

Do we need to add a sanitizer to Region::set_state() to make sure values like position and sync_position can't be negative?

nstewart

2016-10-13 19:28

reporter   ~0018808

I'm not certain. rgareus indicated that the place to fix this where the bad region became invalid, which I don't know.

We could add a trap to set_start/move_start to debug if it ever happens again. While I'm fine with this sort of debugging locally, I'm not sure I like the idea of releasing paranoid debug code into the wild. OTOH, it's not an expensive check. There are a handful of other places where _start can get set (sync point gets set from start, so I'm pretty sure that's where it got its bad value.)

x42

2016-10-13 19:56

administrator   ~0018809

What the correct way to correct the session file in this case?

Just clamp the negative positions to "0"? Does the region-start need to be shifted when the position is negative, and if so under what circumstances?
What if another bug shows up in the future that also produces negative numbers?

tl;dr: Ardour itself should not correct for this. The issue leading to negative position needs to be fixed.


For an automatic way to fix session-files: look at session-utils. A separate standalone tool that performs a specific action on a session.
(recent example is `ardour5-fix_bbtppq` to fix A 5.0 -> 5.3 midi metrum).

https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/blob/master/session_utils/README

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2016-10-10 02:32 nstewart New Issue
2016-10-10 02:32 nstewart File Added: illegal_region.ardour
2016-10-11 18:24 paas44 Status new => assigned
2016-10-13 19:17 paas44 Note Added: 0018807
2016-10-13 19:28 nstewart Note Added: 0018808
2016-10-13 19:56 x42 Note Added: 0018809